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Local Wealth Management Team Recognized Best in Georgia

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced that the Nautilas Group, based in Augusta, has been named to Forbes Magazine’s 2025 list of America’s Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams. “I am pleased that the Nautilas Group is representing Morgan Stanley,” commented Lisa Novelo, Branch Manager of Morgan Stanley’s Augusta office. “To be named to this list recognizes Brian Keith (pictured above left) and Jeremy Wilson (pictured above right) and their professionalism and dedication to the needs of their valued clients.” Keith is a Senior VP and Financial Planning Specialist and has spent 20

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Staff Report May 18, 2025 No Comments
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Two Questions with the Dean: Study Abroad

In the next month or so, business students at AU’s Hull College of Business and other students will leave and study abroad from a week-long trip up to a full term. In today’s “Two Questions with the Dean,” Dean Mark Thompson explains the details. ABD: What trip is set up for this semester? HULL: The study abroad trip this coming summer is going to England and Scotland as part of our international business course. So, it gives students a great opportunity to experience what it’s like to be somewhere else,

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Neil Gordon May 18, 2025 No Comments
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Supporting our largest employers and local communities

A local non-profit has worked quietly to promote economic interests, joining the Savannah River Site (SRS) with the five South Carolina and Georgia Counties it touches. Those are Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell in South Carolina, plus Richmond and Columbia Counties in Georgia. The Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization (SRSCRO) was started in 1993. It was one of nearly 30 such organizations created nationwide when Department of Energy (DOE) sites began closing as the Cold War ended. In the early years, it coordinated revolving loan funds and equity investments, but

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Dana Lynn McIntyre May 18, 2025 No Comments
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Defining Georgia’s workforce development

A series of policies and recommendations on how to train the workforce for the future are now laws in Georgia. Flanked by elected officials and education leaders, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law bills passed by the general assembly defining what the state will do to remain a top state in which to do business. A key piece of legislation was HB 192 (www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69701), entitled the Top State for Talent Act. It codifies the Georgia MATCH program, launched in 2023 to facilitate a student’s enrollment in Georgia post-secondary institutions.

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Dana Lynn McIntyre May 15, 2025 No Comments
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Bank with 115 Georgia branches to add six to the CSRA

It was standing room only at a new bustling bank in National Hills at 2805 Washington Road. National and local leaders from the Chase Bank came to the city to celebrate the opening and to announce plans to open up to six branches in the region over the next three years. A Chase executive told ABD at the event that the next two branches to open will be in Aiken and South Augusta. CSRA Chamber and political leaders joined the lunchtime ribbon-cutting and took a tour of the Chase bank,

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Neil Gordon May 15, 2025 No Comments
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Groundbreaking for new $17.3 Million CSRA Nursing Education Center

As ABD has reported, the nursing shortage across the CSRA has impacted healthcare – a key component in economic development for the area. Both Georgia and South Carolina face critical nursing shortages, according to the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis report. On Monday, May 19, Aiken Technical College will break ground for its new Nursing Education Center. The ceremony will kick off the construction phase for the $17.3 million building. The 30,000-square-foot space will include skills and simulation labs, space for auditorium-style seating, and additional faculty office space. The

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Mitzi Oxford May 14, 2025 No Comments
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Mega Metal selects Fairfield County for first South Carolina operation

Mega Metal, a copper wire manufacturer, announced it has selected Fairfield County to establish the company’s first South Carolina operation. The $34 million investment will create 135 new jobs. Headquartered in Turkey, Mega Metal manufactures copper wire to serve critical industries including automotive, medical, aerospace, defense, and more. The company has over 700 employees and distributes products to more than 30 countries. Located at 364 Blue Granite Parkway in Ridgeway, Mega Metal’s 91,000-square-foot facility will manufacture superfine electrolytic oxygen-free (EOF) copper wire. Once fully operational, the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is expected

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Staff Report May 13, 2025 No Comments
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Site selection experts highlight the Peach State and Augusta

Georgia is ranked well on another “Best Of” survey, and Augusta is in the top 25 in the results. Global Location Strategies (GLS) has published the 2025 edition of its Best Places for Primary Metal Manufacturing Insights Report, and four Georgia cities make the top 25. The Greenville, S.C.-based company is a site selection firm that identifies the top metro areas in the U.S. for primary metal manufacturing. Primary metals are base metals such as aluminum, copper, steel, and the companies that manufacture them. “So, if you had a steel

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Dana Lynn McIntyre May 13, 2025 No Comments
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The Art of the Deal and Beyond: Tips on Negotiation

Whether it is attempting to help end hostilities in Ukraine and Gaza or to improve the United States’ trade position in the world, President Donald Trump and his administration are currently involved in a multitude of high-stakes negotiations. No matter how one feels about President Trump and how he does things, we must all admit that he does know something about negotiating. Almost four decades ago, in 1987, well before he entered politics, he wrote (it was actually ghost-written by journalist Tony Schwartz) a memoir, Trump: The Art of the

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Dr. Rick Franza May 13, 2025 No Comments
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